In the previous part, we learned about what is emotional abuse and the contexts where it can happen. In the current one, we’ll be looking at the four types of emotional abuse (there are more); you can use this information to see if you are the victim of one. Gaslighting is a means of psychological […]
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“You disgust me!” “You’ll never get accepted into that college!” “Get a life!” Can you imagine yourself talking to a person close to you in this manner? Of course not! It’s natural for us to speak with kindness to someone we care about. Often when they end up on our couch, with their head resting […]
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Buddha’s religion works on an inner benediction. Most of us worship God because we are afraid of what might come next, because we don’t know what to do with ourselves. We are under constant threat; death is coming and we don’t know what to do, how to protect ourselves. We need someone to protect us. […]
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What is Emotional Abuse? An emotion is a feeling that you experience like anger, fear, love, happiness as a result of a situation you are in or because of a person you are with. Abuse, on the other hand, is a pattern of behaviour used by one person to gain and maintain power and control […]
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I’d be lying both to myself and the person reading this if I claim that the struggle or the social stigma around crying is over. The rolling down of tears can be one of the many blacklisted natural human responses. It invites judgement of being weak or extra sensitive and tonnes of tissues, as if […]
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For Sadness 1. Be Sad Don’t force yourself to be happy. As long as you get the work done, no one will notice. You can write down your sad thoughts in an email to yourself or bring a stress relieving toy to work. It’s important not to hold your sad thoughts, let them out. Otherwise […]
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Our first impulse might be to pick up some current event or to talk about how good or bad the food is or mention a few impressive things about ourselves. But if a date is the test of the heart then we must talk about things that help two people understand each other at a […]
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A financial crisis can affect not only your professional or personal life but most importantly, your health. It can make you feel as if turning things around will be impossible.
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The existence of god has always been a matter of great debate in philosophy of religion. Arguments have been put forward both for and against god’s existence. One of such arguments is the Ontological Argument. The term ‘ontological’ comes from the Greek ontos, meaning ‘essence’, ‘existence’, ‘being’. The Ontological Argument claims that: a. The proposition […]
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There is a point in the movie, Reign Over Me, where Charlie clearly states to his friend Alan, “I don’t have a family.” On the surface, this sentence may seem very inconsequential but in the case of Charlie, these words when said with such conviction show how deeply he has buried the life he lived […]